ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a heavily attended K-5 school, one of the schools within ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL. It instructs 672 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, a district that educates 2,638 students overall.

Demographically, ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (80%). The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.4%.

In the area at large, Pulaski County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 25.1%.

ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an urban location. ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 989 (now 672). Black enrollment moved from 53% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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